Everything I described happened, but it was painfully slow. The OS loaded, although slowly, then it took me to the initial set up, like a new Android phone would and then it was available to play with. I plugged the USB flash drive, it took me to the PC’s boot menu, I selected what I wanted and I looked in awe. The Failure… I wasn’t actually expecting the whole operation to work smoothly, but for my surprise it did. The installation process is pretty much like the explanation on the OS site, with a quick installation to the USB pen and then it just needed to be plugged in PC and booted up. The file wasn’t that big, with only 800 MB worth of OS to download it took me less than 3 minutes to have on my hard drive.
Since I couldn’t load Windows I decided I would install the OS on a 32Gb USB dongle I had around and boot up the PC from there. Without much to lose I decided to move on with my experience.
What if my WiFi didn’t work? Or even the Ethernet? Would I get a brick - not that it was problem since this particular machine already had the same functionality of a brick - or would it, by some black engineer magic, just work? In the Remix OS page, I couldn’t find a single reference to drivers. And here’s where I thought the troubles would start. Having that checked, I had to know if there was anything that would not work due to drivers. It was, but there was an error on windows that made it impossible to load the OS all the way through. I needed to see if the thing was still able to boot up.
The last time I turned it on, Windows 8 was still a thing, because of that it was running Windows 7 and I installed Windows 10 Tech Preview. The Preparations The first thing I did was to dust off an old HP Laptop I had. The key difference between what Samsung does with its Note line of phones and Remix OS is the availability to port to any laptop, if you’re so inclined to do so. And by multiple windows I don´t mean the split screen Samsung has for a few years now - granted, Samsung also has windows mode on the Note line - or that Google is bringing to Android N, I mean actual windows, like you would have in a PC. Remix OS allows more than one app running at the same time, and on multiple windows. Remix OS however, is something more than just a port for PC chips, it modified Android in a way that allows it to do more than that just open the play store and use an app. It would be a nice experiment to have, but nothing more. Had that been all it could do no one would be writing about this. In theory it can allow any PC - running on a x86 chip - to be able to run Android. What is Remix OS? Remix OS is a fork of Android, made to work on x86 processors. Installing Remix OS on an old Windows laptop